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BLUEBEARD’S EIGHTH WIFE & THE SMILING LIEUTENANT

DOUBLE FEATURE: Two films for one admission. Tickets purchased entitle patrons to stay and see the following film at no additional charge.

BLUEBEARD’S EIGHTH WIFE

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch

Starring Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert

(1938) In classic “meeting cute,” American millionaire Gary Cooper and impoverished Claudette Colbert buy, respectively, the top and bottom of the same pair of pj’s; but after love blossoms, she finds he’s a seven-time divorcé. First screenwriting collaboration of Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder. 35mm. Approx. 80 min.12:50, 4:20, 7:50

“The film in which Brackett and Wilder supposedly perfected the Hollywood ploy of ‘meeting cute’ with a Riviera department store scene where Coop wants to buy pyjama tops and Colbert the bottoms.”– Time Out